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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 61 points 1 month ago (60 children)

Man, I don't like the Steam monopoly on principle, but I have to admit I do struggle to pay attention to Epic exclusives. It's simply the launcher I open the least after GOG and Steam. I've though "hey, wasn't that Ubi Star Wars thing out" like two or three times and forgot about it between remembering that's an Epic thing and deciding whether I wanted to buy it.

But hey, since we're going multiplat again, I could use some newer Ubi games on GOG, too.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 40 points 1 month ago (17 children)

It’s a good monopoly, for now and hopefully for a long time.

The fact that Valve went out of their way to make gaming better in Linux, says a lot imho.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (6 children)

The only good monopoly is one where the profits goes back to the population or the customers.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It’s a private company, so you could argue that the profits go towards the employees and the customers in the form of improvements. Not shareholders.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

One employee is a multi billionaire, so no, it's not a cooperative where the profit is split fairly between employees or redistributed to the customers/members.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Now, now. What would Marx say about that?

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 0 points 1 month ago

Well, that and the several billion dollars in Gaben's bank account.

Private companies are still corporations, guys.

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